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Shared vs Dedicated IP | HubSpot deliverability
Imagine that you've started to invest heavily in email marketing with HubSpot. You see good results, but you want to...
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How Spam Filters Work (And How to Stop Emails Going to Spam)
If you send marketing emails, you probably expect that your subscribers will at least see your email in their inbox....
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12 Ecommerce Email Marketing Best Practices You Need To Know
Ecommerce email marketing may not be the sexiest form of advertising but there’s no question it’s one of the most...
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12 Powerful Strategies to Increase Your Repeat Purchase Rate
If you run an ecommerce business, you know increasing your average repeat purchase rate is important. But what makes a...
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12 Effective Higher Education Marketing Strategies for 2022
With the pandemic, the downturn in undergraduate student enrollment at universities in the US and many countries...
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14 Email Marketing Frequency Best Practices for 2022
An insurance company increased revenue by 45% by sending MORE email. An ecommerce store’s revenue dropped 30% after...
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Want to answer your burning email marketing questions with HubSpot?
You've got questions and with split test automation for HubSpot, you've got answers!
At Seventh Sense, we don't believe...
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How we're using split test automation with hubspot to do the world some good!
Testing and audience creation is an important part of optimizing your email marketing campaigns. However, until now,...
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Google Postmaster Tools: The Ultimate Guide
Google Postmaster Tools is an amazing data source to add to any email marketers' toolkit. Once set up, Postmaster Tools...
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How to Effectively A/B Test Send Time Optimization
In general, we don’t recommend A/B testing as a primary metric for evaluating the performance of send time optimization.
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Back to Basics: Takeaways From the 2021 Email Marketing Benchmark Report
Earlier this year, Validity and Demand Marketing released their 2021 email marketing benchmark report. The report,...
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Introducing: Seventh Sense Custom Workflow Actions for HubSpot
Seventh Sense is a powerful email optimization tool, but we recognize it's not always been straightforward to use or...
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How Imagine Used the Seventh Sense Integration with HubSpot to Optimize Email Workflows + Improve Engagement
Imagine is a business development company that offers Go-To-Market services, revenue operations optimization, HubSpot...
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Unlocking the Customer Buying Cycle with Data
If you’re struggling with a less-than-ideal domain reputation and/or poor email deliverability, it might be time to...
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Email Verification Tools: How They Work, and Which to Choose
Did you know that if your email list contains 10% or more invalid addresses, email service providers may deliver less...
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22 Email Deliverability Best Practices You Should Know
Email deliverability is a vital topic for marketers. After all, If your emails aren’t being seen by your subscribers,...
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The Marketer's Guide to Growing an Email List Using Chatbots
Chatbots have become a staple in major online chat platforms like Facebook Messenger, which has over 1.3 billion users....
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32 Marketers on Email Marketing in the Age of Social Distancing
A few weeks ago, we published a quick guide to writing an effective coronavirus email. Unfortunately, it looks like...
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Just Say No to A/B Testing
It seems every article I read on “top email marketing tips” or “email marketing best practices” extols the virtues of...
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HubSpot's Smart Send vs Send Time Optimization
A few years ago, HubSpot released a feature called Smart Send, which is basically the ability to send marketing emails...
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Email Marketing Trends to Watch in 2020
It's fair to say predictions often don’t line up with reality. Remember when Bill Gates predicted the end of spam by...
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8 HubSpot Apps You Should Be Using in 2020
The HubSpot App Marketplace features hundreds of third-party tools you can use to connect tools, teams, processes, and...
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9 Effective Strategies for a Better Black Friday Email Campaign
Last year, Black Friday generated a whopping$6.2 billion in online sales and Cyber Monday broke records as the...
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How to Increase Email Engagement With Personalization
As a marketing agency, we’re all too familiar with the struggles of email engagement. Customer interests and behaviors...
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Your Ultimate Guide to a Successful Email Reactivation Campaign
Building an email list, especially if you do it the RIGHT way, is expensive. But what happens when your hard-earned...
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Email Domain Reputation: Are your emails going to spam?
Has your average email open rate taken a nosedive recently? There’s a good chance your content is not to blame. If...
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Intelligent Email, Deliverability Protection and More
Over the past several years, Seventh Sense has primarily focused on helping businesses, organizations and educational...
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My list is bigger than yours.
It’s vanity...it’s social proof…no, it’s subscriber counts!First and foremost, I’m all for social proof as it’s one of...
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How Email Marketers Can Get Started with AI
Imagine this: Instead of sitting in a room brainstorming email subject lines or setting up countless A/B tests or...
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An Experiment: Sending Email at the Worst Time vs. Personalized Times
What would happen if we sent our monthly email newsletter at the worst engagement time vs. using send time optimization...
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Inbound vs Outbound Marketing
Marketers (being marketers) like to re-brand things. From “account-based marketing” to “viral marketing,” over the...
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Finding the Best Time to Send Email with Seventh Sense
What’s the best time to send emails, and how often should I send them?
We built Seventh Sense to answer these two...
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Marketo Timezone Sending vs. Send Time Optimization
For Marketo users with email lists spanning multiple time zones, enabling the recipient timezone sending feature on...
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6 Email Marketing Strategies You Shouldn't Disregard
Email marketing is still an effective way to reach your customers with a personalized message, even as social media has...
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6 CRO Strategies to Boost Your Revenue
The goal of any brand is to grab consumers' attention and encourage them to convert into customers. If there is one...
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7 Ways Seventh Sense is Good for Your Health
Do you feel stressed? You're not alone.
80% of marketers feel overloaded and understaffed and 1 in 4 say they...
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8 Reasons NOT to Use Send Time Optimization
It’s no secret I’m a big fan of using machine learning to improve the email experience for marketers, salespeople and...
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6 Beautiful Ecommerce Email Examples to Inspire Yours
Every ecommerce entrepreneur knows that the foundation of your online store lies in its marketing efforts — and email...
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Update: The Best Time to Send Email Has Been Found
(Warning, this blogpost may contain sarcasm)
I get asked the question “what's the best time to send email?” on a...
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4 Data-Backed Ways to Use Email for Lead Generation
How's your lead generation process? If you could use a little help finding more qualified leads, email marketing can...
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Email Verification and Why It’s Important
Collecting email addresses is a routine part of a digital marketer’s job, but how do you know if what you are receiving...
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Are you still playing punch the monkey?
Between revelations about Facebook logging Android data and Mark Zuckerberg set to testify before Congress about...
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The Five Levels of Demand Generation - The Secret to Fast Growth
Over the last 15 years, my company has extensively studied organizations that are consistently growing at rates of 50,...
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3 Easy Ways to Improve Your Account-Based Marketing
Account-based marketing (ABM) has marketers and sales teams working together to examine the business issues facing the...
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The Five Levels of Send Time Optimization
The origin of email goes back to 1971 when even the smallest computers required a wheelbarrow to transport. In the...
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How to Keep Your Emails Out of the Promotions Folder
I recently read a blog post by Seth Godin Please don't kill the blogs, which is an "open letter" to Google where he...
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Work Email Trends After Hours - Infographic
The great part about email is that it means we can get work done no matter what time it is. Unfortunately, the not-so-...
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Is Email Marketing a Commodity?
As an entrepreneur with a vested interested in email, not so long ago I’d argue with anyone that email marketing wasn’t...
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Show Up, Don't be a D*ck and Add Value
I have heard often that sales people are the easiest people to sell to. I never thought I fell into this camp until a...
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Why We Partnered With Databox
You can’t get to your final destination if you don’t know where you are. Every leadership team knows they have to keep...
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Reenrollment Criteria in HubSpot Workflows
When working on some more advanced workflows within HubSpot, I realized that you can only re-enroll contacts based on...
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The ROI of Send Time Optimization
Sure, send time optimization sounds cool. What's not to love about taking advantage of the data you have on each of...
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3 Things CEOs Want from Marketing
Marketing is sometimes a difficult world to understand. We have an endless and always-evolving dictionary of jargon...
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It's Better at the Top: The Psychology of Inbox Priority
People are hardwired to act habitually. Neuroscientists have traced our habit-based behaviors to a separate part of the...
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Perfect Timing: The Best Time to Send Email
Every salesperson and marketer wants to know, "When is the best time to send email?" We spend hours crafting our email...
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Should you care what time you press send?
As a career salesperson, nothing was worse than hearing from an existing or prospective client days after I sent an...
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How Email Open Tracking Works
Have you ever wondered if your emails are being read? What time your recipients opened them, where they were and what...
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What the time of your emails reveal about you
Updated October 6, 2021 - A lot has changed since we wrote this article in 2017! After reading this, you may want to...
